Training Faculty

Cancer Training Program

All Cancer TG faculty mentors are members of the Moores UCSD Cancer Center, with appointments in Chemistry & Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, or the School of Medicine. Our program also incorporates faculty from the Ludwig Cancer Institute and the Salk Institute.

Name/Contact Info	Research Topics
Jing Yang (Program Director) Professor, School of Medicine (Pharmacology) The Yang Lab jiyang@ucsd.edu	Genes and signaling pathways responsible for tumor metastasis; EMT
Daniel Donoghue (Co- Director) Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry ddonoghue@ucsd.edu	Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptors (FGFRs) in human cancer; protein ubiquitination in MM and lympohoma.
Sunil Advani Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences The Advani Lab sjadvani@ucsd.edu	Mechanisms of tumor radioresistance and tumor targeted radiosensitizer delivery
Rommie Amaro Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry The Amaro Lab ramaro@ucsd.edu	Computational chemical biology and biophysics
Joan Brown Professor, Pharmacology The Brown Lab jhbrown@ucsd.edu	Glioblastoma, Cardiac Hypertrophy and Heart Failure, Gq and G12, RhoA, G-Protein Coupled Receptors
Michael Burkart Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry The Burkart Lab mburkart@ucsd.edu	Natural product synthesis/biosynthesis, chemotherapeutics; spliceosome inhibitors.
David Cheresh Professor, School of Medicine The Cheresh Lab dcheresh@ucsd.edu	Cancer Biology, Stem Cells, Drug Resistance
Neal Devaraj Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry The Devaraj Research Group ndevaraj@ucsd.edu	Development of novel probes for detecting or manipulating cancer related pathways with special emphasis on the RAS pathway
Adam Engler Professor, Bioengineering The Engler Lab aengler@ucsd.edu	Mechanobiology of cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and aging
Gen-Sheng Feng Professor, School of Medicine The Feng Lab gfeng@ucsd.edu	Dissecting molecular and cellular mechanisms of liver tumorigenesis.
Napoleone Ferrara Professor, School of Medicine nferrara@ucsd.edu	Biology of angiogenesis and the identification of its regulators.
Christopher Glass Professor, School of Medicine The Glass Lab ckg@ucsd.edu	Regulation of macrophage gene expression in human cancer; PPARs in cancer.
Enfu Hui Associate Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology The Hui Lab enfuhui@ucsd.edu	T cell signaling
Tony Hunter Professor, Salk Institute/Biology The Hunter Lab hunter@salk.edu	Signal transduction pathways in cancer and genomic integrity; discovery and function of P-Tyr; the kinome.
Alexis Komor Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry The Komor Lab akomor@ucsd.edu	The chemical biology of DNA damage and repair and designing tools for genome editing.
Prashant Mali Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering The Mali Lab pmali@ucsd.edu	Cancer genetics and model systems
Alexandra Newton Professor, School of Medicine The Newton Lab anewton@ucsd.edu	Signal transduction pathways in cancer; PKC as tumor suppressor.
Amy Pasquinelli Professor, Biology The Pasquinelli Lab apasquinelli@ucsd.edu	Role of non-coding regulatory RNAs in development and cancer.
Colleen McHugh Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry The McHugh Lab c1mchugh@ucsd.edu	RNA-protein interactions; Assembly of RNPs; Structural biology of multimeric complexes
Tannishtha Reya Professor, School of Medicine The Reya Lab treya@ucsd.edu	Signaling pathway regulation in stem cells and in cancer; Musashi in pancreatic cancer.
Michael Rosenfeld Professor, School of Medicine mrosenfeld@ucsd.edu	Nuclear mechanisms of gene expression; epigenomic and transcriptional regulation in cancer.
David Schlaepfer Professor, School of Medicine dschlaepfer@ucsd.edu	Cell Migration, integrins, invasion, metastasis, signal transduction, tumor, tumor invasion; ovarian cancer.
Christian Metallo Associate Professor, Bioengineering The Metallo Lab cmetallo@ucsd.edu	Cancer metabolism and physiology
Pablo Tamayo Professor, School of Medicine The Tamayo Lab ptamayo@ucsd.edu	Genomics and Cancer Research
Susan Taylor Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Professor of Pharmacology Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Taylor Lab staylor@ucsd.edu	Structure and localization of cAMP-dependent protein kinase; protein kinase structure/function; PKA translocatons in cancer.
Judith Varner Professor, School of Medicine (Pathology) jvarner@ucsd.edu	Tumor microenvironment: tumor inflammation and angiogenesis; immunosuppressive myeloid- derived suppressor cells.
Geoff Wahl Professor, Salk Institue/Biology The Wahl Lab gwahl@ucsd.edu	Signal transduction pathways; identification of cancer- initiating cells; extrachromosomal oncogene amplification; p53 in cancer
Dong-Er Zhang Professor, School of Medicine (Pathology) The Zhang Lab d7zhang@ucsd.edu	Molecular basis of cancer development, progression, and treatment; AML1-ETO in human leukemia.
Jin Zhang Professor, School of Medicine (Pharmacology) jiz175@ucsd.edu	Spatiotemporal regulation of signal transduction; MAPK and AMPK pathways in tumorigenesis.

Training Faculty

Name/Contact Info

Research Topics

Sunil Advani

Rommie Amaro

Joan Brown

Adam Engler

Enfu Hui

Prashant Mali

Colleen McHugh

Christian Metallo

Pablo Tamayo